Are Tony Awards strictly for Broadway shows?
Are Tony Awards strictly for Broadway shows?
Immortal
Swing Joined: 11/22/04
#0Are Tony Awards strictly for Broadway shows?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 10:11amI will soon be entering a more professional level of theatre, but I will stay in Chicago. Though it is an amateur question, can actors win Tony Awards for productions other than in Broadway, i.e. the Chicago Theatre and such?
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#1re: Are Tony Awards strictly for Broadway shows?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 10:11amTonys are all Broadway all the time.
Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.
#2re: Are Tony Awards strictly for Broadway shows?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 10:17amWhat PCB said.
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#3re: Are Tony Awards strictly for Broadway shows?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 10:28am
There is no such thing as "more professional" if it is still "amateur". If the actors get paid, it's professional. If the actors don't get paid, it's amateur.
As for awards in Chicago - there are the Jeff Awards for Equity productions, and the Jeff Citations for Non-Equity productions.
#4re: Are Tony Awards strictly for Broadway shows?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 3:46pm
Tonys are for Broadway
Obie's are for Off-Broadway.
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#5re: Are Tony Awards strictly for Broadway shows?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 5:01pmThey do give one regional theatre award each year. It's possible your theatre might win one of these, but individual awards are not given to the actors that appear in their productions.
www.thebreastcancersite.com
A click for life.
mamie4 5/14/03
A click for life.
mamie4 5/14/03
#6re: Are Tony Awards strictly for Broadway shows?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 5:09pm
The only time a Tony was given to an Off-Broadway performer was 1954 (Lotte Lenya for THE THREEPENNY OPERA).
In the early 1990s the Tony commitee was considering an award to honor Off-Broadway shows, but this was shot down by the producers of Off-Broadway shows themselves. Can't remember the reason why, though.
Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!
Updated On: 7/4/05 at 05:09 PM
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#7re: Are Tony Awards strictly for Broadway shows?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 5:17pm
Partly the reason was that for most Off-Broadway shows, having to give out a pair of free tickets to 750+ Tonys voters was financially prohibitive. Off-Broadway shows play in much smaller theatres than Broadway shows and the profit margins are generally fairly miniscule. Giving away 1500 free seats (plus the additional costs of advertising and the thousands it costs to rehearse and perform a Tony number) was simply beyond the financial means of all, but a handful of off-Broadway producers (shows from The Public, MTC, Roundabout's Pels, LCT's Mitzi probably could have handled it -- it would have blown their budgets, but they're all in solid enough financial shape that they could have done it, if the opportunity had arisen).
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
[http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/]
"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
Updated On: 7/4/05 at 05:17 PM
Videos